High-pop : an introduction / Jim Collins -- "Expecting rain" : opera as popular culture? / John Storey -- Signature and brand / John Frow -- From Brahmin Julia to working-class Emeril : the evolution of television cooking / Toby Miller -- "Tan"talizing others : multicultural anxiety and the new orientalism / Kim Middleton Meyer -- Class rites in the age of the blockbuster / Alan Wallach -- Museums and department stores : close encounters / Carol Duncan -- Which Shakespeare to love? Film, fidelity, and the performance of literature / Timothy Corrigan -- No (popular) place like home? / Jim Collins -- Style and the perfection of things / Celia Lury.